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Advanced Dell Technologies Supercomputer with NVIDIA GPUs to Help Ohio Academia, Industry Ascend to New Heights | Dell Technologies

Ohio Supercomputer Center working with industry partners to launch additional HPC resource in Fall 2022
The name Ascend evokes the state of
“Over the last few years, OSC has experienced a growing demand for its GPU resources,” said
Ascend will help meet the needs of an increasing number of clients involved in research and technology innovations in the AI and machine learning fields. OSC currently is involved in two
OSC also is offering the “AI Bootcamp for Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Professionals” this year to build expertise in AI and supportive technologies among staff at research computing facilities like OSC nationally.
“Ascend will provide a state-of-the art resource for the ICICLE research team to explore and develop new AI technologies while also giving our staff an opportunity to increase their understanding of the AI workload and best practices for support of this growing area,” said
Ascend reflects the state of
The project is a collaboration between OSC and several information technology vendors.
Comprised of Dell PowerEdge servers with 48 AMD EPYC™ CPUs and 96 NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Cores GPUs supercharged by NVIDIA NVLink and interconnected by the NVIDIA Quantum 200Gb/s InfiniBand platform, Ascend triples OSC’s capacity for AI, modeling and simulation. The new system joins OSC’s Pitzer and Owens clusters current capabilities of 5.5 petaflops, more than 14.2 petabytes of disk storage capacity and more than 14 petabytes of expandable backup storage. Ascend will add additional petaflops of performance.
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“The exascale AI era will allow researchers to make discoveries that were considered unattainable for decades,” said
“AMD EPYC processors support researchers around the world with the performance and productivity needed to answer some of science’s biggest questions,” said
“With four A100 80GB NVLink GPUs per node, Ascend will offer a unique, leading-edge resource for our clients,” Johnson said.
OSC’s client services team will evaluate client requests to run projects on Ascend, which will be accessible through OSC’s OnDemand web portal.
OSC plans to announce a more detailed timeline for the Ascend launch and availability this summer.
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OSC, John Strawn, OH-TECH, jstrawn@oh-tech.org, 614-688-8700; Dell Technologies, Media.Relations@Dell.com